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Getting Angular

With the release of Ride Angles (Skirl), his first album as a leader, Sam Ospovat has joined the ranks of forward-looking drummer/composers like Ches Smith, Katie Gentile, Dan Weiss, and Tyshawn Sorey: artists who are fearlessly going against the jazz grain.

Sipping a beer at a bar near his Sunset Park, Brooklyn home base, the 41-year-old Ospovat—an acrobatic heavy-hitter

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